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Thursday, May 3

The Creative Multimedia Department of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) is organizing a animation pitching competition. In this competition, companies or individuals will have to pitch their idea, pre-production of their animated characters, information of the story and eventual background.

OBJECTIVE:

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To use this as a showcase of Malaysia talent in the content creation industries that can be showcased or marketed globally.

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To encourage and nurture new talents in turning their Ideas into reality.

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To attract animation content developers to come out with greater ideas and stories.

Professional: 3 winners from this category will be awarded RM 50,000 grant each, Independent: 3 winners from this category will be awarded RM 40,000 grant each to support their trailer or pilot episode.

Submission of proposals will be open until 28 June 2007. MDeC will be organizing workshops in the month of April, May and June 2007 for the benefit of interested participants. These workshops will help them to have a better understanding of the requirements needed to develop a trailer / pilot episode within the allocated budget. These workshops will also help participants to come up with strong proposals for the eventual pitch.